Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean

Happywhale

Dataset credit

Happywhale and contributors

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Ted Cheeseman Happywhale.com
Data entry Ei Fujioka Duke University

Citation

Happywhale. 2025. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Version 1.2.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/1b7bccf0.

Abstract

Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP.

There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only.

This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 19 contributors in alphabetic order:

A-G Tissot; Anita Rude; Anna Astafurova; Anton Chaiko; Conor Ryan; Karen Mulders; Kerstin Langenberger; Kristin Adelsberger; Léa Zinsli; Mick Peerdeman; MV Hondius; Patrick Chauvet; Steffo Polar; Suzanne Wafer; Ted Cheeseman; Tiyasa Samanta; Victoria Stokes; whitney van arsdale; Елена Викторовна Бойко

Change History

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

- 1.2.0 (2025-11-17) - Update
  • Monthly update in Nov 2025.
- 1.1.0 (2025-09-30) - Update
  • Complete refersh due to database migration in Sep 2025.
- 1.0.0 (2018-02-23) - Initial
  • Initial release.

References

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)Description
oid
type
modified
language
institution_code
basis_of_record
occurrence_id
catalog_number
recorded_by
individual_count
sex
preparations
occurrence_remarks
organism_id
organism_name
organism_remarks
event_id
event_date
event_time
higher_geography
water_body
locality
verbatim_locality
decimal_latitude
decimal_longitude
geodetic_datum
coordinate_precision
scientific_name
taxon_rank
vernacular_name
license
rights_holder
external_resource
external_resource_thumb
OBIS-SEAMAP ID1724
DOI10.82144/1b7bccf0
Version1.2.0
Seabirds0
Marine mammals25
Sea turtles0
Rays and sharks0
Other species0
Non spatial0
Non species0
Total25
Date, Begin2016-05-16
Date, End2025-06-30
Temporal prec.111111
Latitude64.40 - 79.88
Longitude-95.98 - 39.60
Coord. prec.6 decimal digits
PlatformBoat
Data typePhoto ID
EffortN/A
Registered2018-02-23
Updated2025-11-15
StatusPublished
Sharing policy CC-BY-NC (All)
Sub group(s)Happywhale
Shared with GBIF
OBIS
Metadata in static HTML / FGDC / EML
See download history / statistics